{"title": "Permutation City", "covers": [-1], "key": "/works/OL115336W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19038A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Twenty-first century in fiction", "Twenty-first century", "Fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Distopian", "Apocalyptic literature", "Post-apocalyptic", "Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Immortality can be yours . . . at a price\r\n\r\nPermutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate to save her dying mother, a billionaire banker scarred by a terrible crime, the lovers for whom, in their timeless virtual world, love is not enough - and much more - Permutation city is filled with the sense of wonder and dread.\r\n\r\nCan what makes you human be distilled into data? And what happens if you can't afford to pay?"}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-18T05:06:07.461934"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-02-26T23:15:16.108612"}}